Whither the pluriverse? Degrowth and coloniality
By Andy Stirling, Saurabh Arora
Will degrowth as a discourse and movement extend coloniality, by aiming to make just one world out of the many that form the earth’s pluriverse?
Tag: degrowth perspectives
Where We Mine: Resource Politics in Latin America
By Annabelle Dawson, Thea Riofrancos, Green European Journal
Ideas are effective when people see themselves in them and want to fight for them, rather than something that is purely intellectual. We need to think in terms of the questions and ideas that can galvanise the militant and collective action that this moment requires.
Taking International Relations into the Degrowth Era
By Jack Ainsworth, Degrowth.de
Our economic and political architecture are both inventions, created by humans for certain objectives and the international political system is no exception to this rule.
Grappling with growth
By Daniel Boston, Transnational Institute
In this spirit, this article aims to provide an overview of some of the key discussions and points of critique directed towards degrowth over the years, especially by people’s movements, and how they have impacted upon scholarship, activism and discourse.
On Degrowth
By Kamran Nayeri, Our Place in the World
Degrowth shines a light on the problem of growth on a planet with finite resources. It also envisions a smaller human society living on a shrinking economic pie...
Portrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’
By Anna Pringle, Degrowth.de
The English-language press is not informing the public thoughtfully of alternatives to our current political-economic system or the impact of unfettered growth on the planet.
Degrowth and law – how to combine these concepts?
By Geoffrey Garver, Degrowth.de
Humanity’s overarching challenge is to learn how to stop individually and collectively doing harmful things we are used to and conditioned to doing. Meeting that challenge, through degrowth or otherwise, requires some form of law.
Collective learnings from the 2020 Latin American Degrowth Forum
By Diego Arahuetés, Gabriela Cabaña, Mariana Calcagni, María Paz Aedo, Degrowth.de
Facing the threat of an “economic reactivation” that reproduces and deepens the ideology of infinite economic growth and its impacts, it becomes necessary to make visible, share, and co-create alternatives to our current model of civilization.
Caring for Change: Our Degrowth is Intersectional!
By Corinna Dengler, Giacomo D’Alisa, Degrowth.de
The Covid-19 pandemic has made all the more evident what feminists have long argued, namely that care work – especially direct care work which involves a relation between a caregiver and a care receiver – is the foundation of our economy and society.
Beyond Capitalist Realism: The Politics, Energetics, and Aesthetics of Degrowth
By Samuel Alexander, The Simplicity Collective
I reject capitalist realism as unrealistic, as an artefact of false consciousness; as false consciousness itself, blind to its ecocidal nature.
Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way
By Samuel Miller McDonald, Jason Hickel, The Trouble
At its most distilled, “degrowth” refers to a process of reducing the material impact of the economy on the world’s many imperiled ecologies, abandoning GDP as a measurement of well-being, and forging an equitable steady-state economy.
Degrowing for peace? Tackling structural violence and climate resilience
By Christie Nicoson, Resilience.org
Examples of degrowth provide a starting point for considering concrete steps toward tackling structural violence, fostering climate resilience, and advancing peace.